Profile of tuvok

Tournament Format:
You all sound so smart bitching about the qualifier day, you think the organizers didn't know playing for 12 hours is not good? They just tried to make the best of a bad situation, and they did, since the top seeds qualified.

Qualifiers and grandfinals dates were locked in from the start to ensure that top players had a way to keep their agenda free for that, over 5K $ prizes and Relic in-game adverstizing were not expected but when that made 500 people sign up there was no easy solution.

Invites:
What's wrong with having four invites? The invite procedure was transparent and explained to everyone: best tourney results + best ladder rankings, what's better than that? 3 invited players showed how they deserved to be there, Jesulin didn't, are you really gonna say Jesulin didn't deserve to be invited?

Gameplay:
I think this tournament really showed how this game is meant to be played at the top level: in one word, aggression.
Top 3 players all make aggressivity the staple of their playstyle, this resulted in short games, that sometimes looked disappointing because of what look like silly mistake that a conservative player wouldn't make. It's hard to understand as a viewer how much harder is to stay on top of things with such a different playstyle but I'm sure this also shows that things can be improved further and the skill cap can rise much more.

Casting:
Romeo is by far my favourite caster and I was very happy to hear him cast the finals, his insights are on point and he knows how to pace things so that the awkward silence or awkward lack of action are never apparent. I didn't have a problem when Ami took entertaining duties, he was much more focused than last weekend and it showed, he obviously needs to play the game more to understand better what viewers want to see.
But sometimes it's good to have someone that doesn't know as much between the casters, not all of the 4K viewers are pros, and asking 'this thing does that, right?', or 'this unit should beat this one, right?' actually could save lots of people some headaches.
Ciez and Festive also make two great co-casters but together they lacked the aforementioned drama factor.
The triple cast was a bit awkward because of co-casters starting to talk over each other, but with some rehearsing it's something I wanna see again for sure.

99% chance it was just bad luck.

Keep their names in mind in case it happens numerous times with the same exact people though.

basically what your signature says?

relic pls...

what if:
- while abandoned, tanks get reduced armor value
- you can only reclaim an abandoned tank only after 100% repairing it

Quick, somewhat off-topic question, but could somebody please explain to me what the actual purpose of unit upkeep is? As far as I can tell, it's an arbitrary method of punishing good unit preservation.

It prevents early advantage snowballing in mid game dominance and makes comebacks easier.
It also punishes you for spamming low-tier units and ecnourages teching (yeah sure )